| Description |
xv, 357 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Classic reprint series (Forgotten Books (Firm))
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| Contents |
Truth of intercourse / Robert Louis Stevenson -- On the difference between writing and speaking / William Hazlitt -- Principles of growth / Sidney Thompson Dobell -- Principles of success in literature (II and IV) / George Henry Lewes -- Cardinal rules of rhetoric / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Principle of economy applied to words / Herbert Spencer -- Words that laugh and cry / New York Sun -- Philosophy of composition. Marginalia / Edgar Allan Poe -- Judgements of authors / George Eliot -- Simplicity in art / Frank Norris -- Language and the man / John Ruskin -- Morality of the profession of letters / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Advice to a young reviewer / Edward Copleston -- What everyone knows about expression and something which all the world does not know / Denis Diderot -- The novel / Guy de Maupassant -- Art of fiction / Henry James -- Humble remonstrance / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Story-telling / George Eliot -- Aim of fictional art / Joseph Conrad -- Problem in fiction / Frank Norris -- De finibus / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Discourse on style / Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon -- Sinews of style / Henry David Thoreau -- Style as organic and as mechanic / Thomas de Quincey -- On style / Arthur Schopenhauer -- On familiar style / William Hazlitt -- On style / Arthur Quiller-Couch -- Index |
| Notes |
Classic reprint series |
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Facsimile of the 1924 printing, third impression, by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Literary style.
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Authorship.
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Literary style.
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| Author |
Brown, Rollo Walter, 1880-1956
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| ISBN |
9781331288145 |
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